All right. Welcome, everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds. My daughter the other day heard me

doing this intro and she said, Dad, you sound like such a robot when, you just don't sound like yourself,

Dad.

You sound like a robot when you're doing your podcast.

So I'm trying not to sound like a robot too much.

But today we have Greg Altman on the show.

And IT, you know, what's really amazing is as I look over and scroll down through your LinkedIn profile, it says 27 years and one month. And that, I mean, that is dedication. But not, it's not dedication so much that amazes me is that how much technology has changed in that amount of time.

Did we even have the internet at the company that long ago?

No, no, we did not.

I mean, that just goes to show you.

The internet is really not, it's not an old thing.

And we act like, we act like this is something that has been around

forever and i try to explain to my kids like how fun it was to go to you know uh holding house of

pizza uh get a pizza and then go wait in line for an hour to hope to get into

the opening of Rambo.

You know?

Yeah.

And you just wouldn't do that anymore.

And in all the stores that have closed. anyways man welcome to the show and let's just

let's go back to um i guess 1996 i had just graduated high school and you are still working at the

same company that you are working at today so let's just you's just tell me kind of what it was like back then.

Well, I had just moved into IT from our purchasing department.

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